Antone Cayagus Fights for Life on Devil's Home Peak
Antone Cayagus known as Two Fingered Tony, a half breed Mexican, built a cave among the Devil's home rocks north of Molina Colorado after a horse theft case in Carbon County Wyoming. He defended himself with a bowie knife against a grizzly and a mountain lion, surviving severe injuries and freezing conditions before being found by cowboys.
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Molina
Colo
Antone Cayagus
Devil’s Home
Carbon County
Colorado Line
Denver News
White
Antone Cayagas
Tony
Antone
Cayagus
Nero's Theater and Chicago jewel thief scandal headline
A vivid review of Nero's Theater at the Academy of Fine Arts describes a brutal lifelike painting of a tiger and elephant. The piece follows a Chicago tale of Alexander Haviland Gildersleeve, a socialite jewel thief linked to Camp family losses and a nationwide scam trail.
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Academy of Fine Arts
Hagenback
The
New York Journal
Voodoo Queen Marie Leveau in Old New Orleans Tale
A vivid piece on Marie Leveau, the so called Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, detailing her house on St Ann Street, her mastery of herbs and poisons, and her feared role in the city. It also recounts a Hearst spelling anecdote from a mining saloon that pits him against a bartender in a playful dispute over the word bird.
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Dersleeve
Inter Ocean
Henry Gildersleeve
New York Supreme Court
Gildersleeve
Mr. Gildersleeve
Chicago
William Carpenter Camp
Billy Camp
Alexander Haviland Gildersleeve
Camp
Auditorium Hotel
Cleopatra
Queen Victoria
Kohinoor
Mrs. Camp
Virginia Hotel
St. Louis
Denver
San Francisco
Marie Leveau
New Orleans
St. Ann Street
Macdonalds Sword Symbol of Valor at Majuba
The account recalls Colonel Hector A. Macdonald who survived Majuba Hill and the Omdurman campaign. His sword, a gift from his company, was surrendered to Boers who urged him to wear it. In captivity, Macdonald and his men faced shame and loss, yet their captain urged honor. The episode ends with the Boers returning the blade and a vow to remember Macdonald's sword.
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Hector A. Macdonald
Omdurman
Majuba Hill
Macdonald
T. P. O'Connor
Majuba
B. M. Bromley
Moon Eclipse Predicted by The Strict Mamma
A playful exchange notes a total lunar eclipse expected Sunday. Fritzchen-Papa vows the event, while Mother cautions it hinges on the children’s behavior, as depicted in Pliegende Blatter.
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Fritzchen
A Church In a Cave Near Oban
A natural cave in the cliffs of Ledaig near Oban Argyleshire was fitted as a place of worship by local poet and postmaster John Campbell who served as pastor for years. He cleared the cave and furnished it with tree trunks for seating. The reading desk table is said to be part of a tree Bruce rested upon. Worshipers rarely exceeded 36 and sometimes were only three or four.
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Amies
Callahans
East Fork
Kentucky River
Goose Creek
Manchester
John Amies
John Elkins
Callahan
Clay County
Elkins
Abner Baker
John Bates
Philpots
Pigeon Roost
Griffin
Philpot
White- Howard
Ledaig
Oban
Argyllshire
England
John Campbell
Robert the Bruce
Woman defies car rule with bulldog passenger in New York
A New York Herald account tells of a woman who boarded an Amsterdam Avenue car with a large English bulldog. The conductor refused the dog ride as policy, prompting a tense exchange over fares and rules.
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Amsterdam Avenue
Fifty-Seventh Street
New York Herald
Clocks and Contradictions from Lewis Carroll
A humorous dialogue compares clocks that are right at different frequencies. One clock stops completely and the other loses a minute daily, illustrating paradoxes about when a clock can be correct and how often that occurs. The piece teases logical self contradiction.
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Lewis Carroll Picture Book
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Rochester
Gil
Kentucky
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Hugh Griffin
Colt
Voodoo
Senator Hearst
George Hearst
Mr. Hearst
Hearst
Bird
New York Mail and Express
Col. Macdinald
Lions’ den
Ohio
C. J. Thompson
Defiance
Express
Davis
Roebuck & CO Chicaco
Ill
Sears, Roebuck& Co
Montgomery Ward & CO
Michigan
Madison St
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